The Economics of Technological Diffusion [Paperback]

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• Game-theoretic approaches to the modelling of technological change
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• Finance and technological change
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• Technological change in international trade.

List of Figures.

Preface.

Part I: Introduction and Empirical Observations Upon the Diffusion Process.

1. By Way of an Introduction and Guide.

2. Empirical Patterns in the Diffusion of Innovations.

Part II: The Theory of Technological Diffusion.

3. The Intertemporal Demand for Stand-alone Technologies.

4. Risk and Uncertainty.

5. Multiple Technologies, Complementary Inputs, Network Externalities and General Purpose Technologies.

6. The Supply Side.

Part III: Empirical Analysis of the Diffusion of New Technology.

7. Empirical Analysis: An Overview.

8. Rank, Stock, Order and Epidemic Effects in Diffusion of New Process Technologies: An Empirical Model.

9. The Diffusion of Multiple Process Technologies.

10. Testing Alternative Models of New Product Diffusion.

Part IV: Diffusion Policy.

11. Diffusion Policy: An Introduction.

12. Technology Diffusion and Public Policy.

13. Technological Diffusion Expectations and Welfare.

14. Adoption Subsidies vs. Information Provisionl³&